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Nov 6, 2012
NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “Integrating the Israeli Arab Community: Army and National Service,” a lecture by Reuven Gal, the former chief psychologist of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Thursday, November 8.Read MoreAround the Square, Arts and Science |
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Nov 8, 2012
Gallatin School of Individualized Study Professor Mitchell Joachim and a team of students captured a bronze medal at the International Genetic Engineering Machine (iGEM) competition for creating a full-scale synthetic biological chair.Read MoreGallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, Faculty |
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Nov 9, 2012
NYU alum and Twitter sensation Rob Delaney will perform in a second show on Saturday night in which 100 percent of the proceeds will go towards Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts. Read More
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Nov 9, 2012
Iran is on the verge of a breakout nuclear capability; the Eurozone is in deep distress; Syria is facing a humanitarian crisis; China and North Korea are undergoing a leadership transitions; and turbulence continues in Egypt and throughout North Africa. Read MoreSchool of Law, NYUToday-feature |
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Nov 12, 2012
NYU has again been listed among the top American universities in both attracting international students and in the number of American students who study abroad, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education (IIE).Read MoreAround the Square, NYUToday-feature |
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Nov 12, 2012
NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies will host film scholar Raz Yosef for a public lecture, “Identity of the Victim: Trauma and Ethics in Current Israeli Cinema,” on Tuesday, November 27.Read MoreAround the Square, Arts and Science |
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by James DevittNov 14, 2012
NYU physicists have created a tractor beam capable of pulling particles micrometers in size. This so-called optical conveyor tractor beam has a range of potential applications, from microfluidics in the near term to far-out applications like collecting dust samples from comet tails.Read MoreArts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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Nov 16, 2012
The New York University Sports & Society Program will host the 2nd Annual Sports in America Series: The Arthur Miller Dialogues. The event, titled “Young Athletes: The Costs, Sacrifices, and Consequences,” will be held on November 19, 2012 and will take the form of a panel discussion that will be moderated by Arthur Miller, NYU University Professor and NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) director of Public Dialogues. Read MoreSchool of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Nov 16, 2012
Under the direction faculty members Phil Galdston, Ron Sadoff, and Glenn Frey, co-founder of the Eagles, Steinhardt student songwriters, Tiger Darrow, A.J. Smith, and Peter Wise, opened for the famous act at the first NYU Steinhardt Vision Award Gala. The inaugural event raised more than $1 million. Funds will be used for Steinhardt student scholarships.Read MoreSteinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Nov 16, 2012
The Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “100 Years of Hashomer Hatzair: Assessing the Significance of a Political Movement,” a one-day conference on the Zionist youth movement that began in Austria-Hungary, on Sunday, December 2, 2-7 p.m. at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.Read MoreAround the Square, Arts and Science |
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Nov 20, 2012
The Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a pioneering graduate center for the design and study of alternative media forms and applications in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has announced its 2012 winter exhibition of recent works by graduate student artists and innovators will take place on Sunday and Monday, December 16 and 17. Read MoreTisch School of the Arts |
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Nov 20, 2012
“Las Otras: (Re)Imaging Queer Latin@s” is an exhibition of naturally lit, medium-format portraits by Lupe Salinas, the 2012 Constantiner Fellowship award winner in the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Read MoreTisch School of the Arts |
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Nov 26, 2012
Chelsea Clinton, a special correspondent for NBC News, will moderate a public forum on “Climate Change, Sandy, and the Future of New York City,” on Wednesday, December 5, 6-7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Global Center Concourse. Read MoreNYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square |
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Nov 27, 2012
NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) today announced that it will launch its inaugural programs and host its first class of 50 students at MetroTech in Downtown Brooklyn next fall. With construction beginning now on approximately 26,000 square feet of space in 1 MetroTech Center, CUSP will occupy the MetroTech space, leased to the University by Forest City Ratner Companies, in February 2013 as NYU continues to transform the former Metropolitan Transit Authority facility at 370 Jay Street into its permanent home. Read MoreNYUToday-feature, New York City, MetroTech, Brooklyn, Center for Urban Science and Progress |
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Nov 28, 2012
Judgments we make with a moral underpinning are made more quickly and are more extreme than those same judgments based on practical considerations, a new set of studies finds. However, the findings also show that judgments based on morality can be readily shifted and made with other considerations in mind.Read MoreResearch, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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Nov 29, 2012
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a joint administrative supplement grant to Dr. Brian Schmidt, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and director of the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research at the NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD), and Dr. Markus Hardt, a protein chemist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, to collaborate with informationists at the NYU Health Sciences Libraries in their study of the role of the molecular mechanisms of cancer pain in general and oral cancer pain in particular.Read MoreFaculty, College of Dentistry, Research |
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Nov 29, 2012
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded four NYU professors the distinction of AAAS Fellow: Jane Carlton, a professor of biology; Nicholas Geacintov, a professor of chemistry; Laurence Maloney, a professor of psychology and neural science; and Xiao-Jing Wang, a professor of neural science. Read MoreNYUToday-feature, Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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Nov 29, 2012
According to the study—part of the RN Work Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation— there are a variety of motivators, from desire for advancement to job dissatisfaction, that influence registered nurses (RNs) to pursue a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree or higher. The study was published in the November/December issue of the Journal of Professional Nursing.Read MoreNYUToday-feature, Research, College of Nursing, Faculty |
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